GRE Word List
CHAMPION
a winner of first prize or first place in competition
The meaning of the word champion is a winner of first prize or first place in competition.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| presentiment | a feeling that something will or is about to happen : premonition |
| appall | to overcome with consternation, shock, or dismay |
| execrate | to declare to be evil or detestable : denounce |
| avenge | to take vengeance for or on behalf of |
| nib | bill |
| tarantula | any of various large, typically ground-dwelling, hairy, mygalomorph spiders (family Theraphosidae) of warm regions that possess venomous fangs used to subdue and kill prey (such as insects, centipedes, frogs, and mice) caught by ambush or chase and that construct silk-lined burrows but do not build webs to trap food |
| brevity | shortness of duration |